Columbia Main Series, Part 23:CL 2700-2799/CS 9500-9599
(1967-1968)
By Randy Watts, Mike Callahan, David Edwards, and Patrice Eyries
Last update: November 7, 2015

This page covers the start of the transition to "stereo only" album releases. In February, 1968,
Columbia started releasing albums in "compatible stereo," with no commercial mono releases. For a short
time (a number of months), Columbia did ship mono versions of some albums to radio stations, but this
practice was discontinued within about a year.

Compatible stereo/mono records had been an industry goal — and controversy — since the
stereo record was introduced in 1957. At that time, mono grooves had horizontal "wiggles" that allowed
the sound to be reproduced, and the cartridge that held the stylus was not built to allow vertical movement.
When stereo came in, the groove was set up to allow one channel to be on each side of the groove, which
demanded that the cartridges have both horizontal and vertical movement. For that reason, playing a
stereo record on a mono machine back in the 1950s resulted in damage (shearing off some of the little
peaks in the grooves) to the stereo record. This incompatibility was a major problem, but mono cartridges
were soon introduced that allowed vertical movement, minimizing the damage to the stereo records. By
1967, fully 10 years later, most of the old mono cartridges were out of the system, and stereo records
could safely be played "on most modern mono machines."

That wasn't the only problem with compatibility, however. When a stereo record was played on a mono
machine, the mathematical "a+b" algorithm where the two sides were added resulted in about a 3%
volume increase for things that were on both channels (i.e., things "in the middle.") This was less a
hardware problem, and more of a sound problem. This problem also had to be overcome before stereo
records were truly compatible. The industry started working on this issue in earnest starting in early 1966,
and by the end of 1967, it was felt that the sound of a stereo record played on a mono machine was
sufficiently similar that mono records could be discontinued.

Like most things Columbia did, the changeover didn't come all at once. Although Columbia started
issuing "stereo-only" releases in February, 1968, they didn't completely discontinue coupled commercial
mono/stereo issues until the end of 1968. Even then, some later records were issued in mono-only due to
unavailability of stereo recordings.

The mono releases on this page used the "two eye" label with "MONO" in white lettering near the bottom
(far left). The stereo label was similar, but the white lettering near the bottom said "360 SOUND"
STEREO "360 SOUND" with two arrows flanking the white legend at the bottom (near left).

Most promo copies at this time used the regular red labels, with a timing strip on the front cover (far left), a
stamp on the back cover, and the regular label inside. When Columbia went to stereo-only releases,
some mono promo copies were provided to radio stations with a white label (near left) that used the stereo
number but said "MONO" on the bottom.

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discography are copyright 2015 by Mike Callahan.

CL-2701/CS-9501 - The Medium Is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan [1967] Readings
from the book "The Medium Is the Massage," with original musical accompaniment by John Simon.

CL-2702/CS-9502 - A New World's Record - Brothers Four [6-67] Walkin' Backwards
Down The Road/Umbrellas In The Rain/Shenandoah/Have You Got A Light Boy/It Was A Very Good
Year/Meantime//Here Today And Gone Tomorrow/No Sad Songs For Me/Changes/The First Time
Ever/All I Need Is You

CL-2703/CS-9503 - The Things I Love - Jim Nabors [8-67] (9-67, #147) Full Moon And
Empty Arms/Don't You Know/Stranger In Paradise/The Story Of A Starry Night/My Reverie//Till The End
Of Time/Our Love/The Lamp Is Low/The Things I Love/And This Is My Beloved

CL-2704/CS-9504 - Today's Themes for Young Lovers - Percy Faith [7-67] (9-67, #111)
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)/Yellow Days/There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)/I
Can Hear The Music/Release Me/Mary In The Morning//Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Windy/A World Of
Whispers/Happy Together/Somethin' Stupid

CL-2705/CS-9505 - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs - Pete Seeger
[6-67] Oh Yes I'd Climb (The Highest Mountain Just For You)/Seek And You Shall Find/The Sinking Of
The Reuben James/Waist Deep In The Big Muddy/Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream/Down By The
Riverside//Nameless Lick/Over The Hills/East Virginia/My Name Is Liza Kalvelage/My Father's Mansion's
Many Rooms/Melodie d'Amour/Those Three Are On My Mind

CL-2706/CS-9506 - I Believe - Anita Bryant [7-67] I Believe/You'll Never Walk Alone/Two
Wonderful Hands/Over The Rainbow/Great Somebody//Anyone Can Move A Mountain/One Little
Candle/Suddenly There's A Valley/The Sound Of Music/The Impossible Dream (The Quest)/He's Got The
Whole World In His Hands

CL-2707/CS-9507 - The Love Album - Starlight Woodwinds [6-67] Moon River/Alfie/The
Shadow Of Your Smile (Love Theme From "The Sandpiper")/Yesterday/Try To Remember/It Hurts To Say
Goodbye//Days Of Wine And Roses/I Will Wait For You/Michelle/Misty/Autumn Leaves

CL-2708/CS-9508 - You Only Live Twice: John Barry Conducts His Greatest Movie Hits - John
Barry [6-67] You Only Live Twice/Theme From "Born Free"/Goldfinger/The Whisperers/From Russia
With Love/Wednesday's Child//Space March/The Girl With The Sun In Her
Hair/Thunderball/Dutchman/The Wrong Box/The James Bond Theme

CL-2712/CS-9512 - Jackpot: Recorded Live in Las Vegas - Dave Brubeck [1-68] Ace In
The Hole/Out Of Nowhere/You Go To My Head/Who's Afraid?//Chicago (That Toddling Town)/Rude Old
Man/Jackpot/Win A Few, Lose A Few

CL-2714/CS-9514 - The Dynamic O. C. Smith - O.C. Smith [7-67] On A Clear Day You
Can See Forever/That's Life/My Romance/Work Song/On The South Side Of Chicago/Fever//The
Season/Georgia Rose/Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars/What Now My Love/Here's That Rainy Day

CL-2717/CS-9517 - Ken Griffin's Greatest Hits - Ken Griffin [10-67] The stereo version is
electronically rechanneled. You Can't Be True, Dear/The Syncopated Clock/Love Letters In The Sand/My
Happiness/April In Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade)/Cruising Down The River//Now Is The Hour (Maori
Farewell Song)/The Anniversary Waltz/The Bells Of St. Mary's/Harbor Lights/Sleepy Time Gal

CL-2718/CS-9518 - Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him - Firesign Theater
[1-68] Temporarily Humbolt County/W. C. Fields Forever/Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde//Waiting For The
Electrician Or Someone Like Him

CL-2720/CS-9520 - Do You Hear What I Hear? Christmas with Anita Bryant - Anita Bryant
[9-67] (12-67 #25-X) Do You Hear What I Hear?/In A Humble Place/The First Noel/Mary's Lullaby (Sleep
Baby, Sleep)/The Story Of Christmas//Silent Night, Holy Night/O Little Town Of Bethlehem/It Came Upon
The Midnight Clear/O Holy Night/O Come, All Ye Faithful/Away In A Manger

CL-2721/CS-9521 - Revolution! - Paul Revere & Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay [7-67]
(9-67, #25) Later repackaged with CS-9395 as two-record set GP-12. Him Or Me–What's It Gonna
Be?/Reno/Upon Your Leaving/Mo'reen/Wanting You/Gone–Movin' On//I Had A
Dream/Tighter/Make It
With Me/Ain't Nobody Who Can Do It Like Leslie Can/I Hear A Voice

CL-2722/CS-9522 - The Time Has Come - Chambers Brothers [11-67] (2-68, #4; #6-RB)
All Strung Out Over You/People Get Ready/I Can't Stand It/Romeo And Juliet/In The Midnight Hour/So
Tired//Uptown/Please Don't Leave Me/What The World Needs Now Is Love/Time Has Come Today
(11:03 LP length)

CS-9523 - Born to Sing - Phyllis Diller [11-68] (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction/Hello, Young
Lovers/Bei Mir Bist Du Schon/And This Is My Beloved/My Man/I Enjoy Being A Girl//The Man I
Love/Nobody Makes A Pass At Me/If You've Got The Money (I've Got The Time)/Medley: The Curse Of
An Aching Heart; A Bird In A Gilded Cage)/One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)

CL-2724/CS-9524 - Marches of the Israel Defense Forces - Israel Army Band [5-67] This
was incidentally released mere weeks before the "Six Day War" (June 5-10, 1967). Song Of The
Night/Our Platoon Marches At Night/Comrades-In-Arms March/Song Of The Legions/Israel March/The
Israel Army Marches//The Unknown Platoon/March Golany/Blue And White/March Yoav/We Will Build
Our Country/The Frontier Forces

CL-2725/CS-9525 - Tonight Carmen - Marty Robbins [8-67] (9-67 #4-CW) Tonight
Carmen/Waiting In Reno/Is There Anything Left I Can Say/Loves Gone Away/Bound For Old Mexico/Don't
Go Away Se¤0r//The Girl With The Gardenias In Her Hair/In The Valley Of The Rio Grande/The Mission
In Guadalajara/Chapel Bells Chime/Spanish Lullaby

CL-2726/CS-9526 - Up, Up and Away - Johnny Mathis [11-67] (12-67, #60) Up, Up And
Away/The More I See You/Where Are The Words/The Morningside Of The Mountain/I Won't Cry
Anymore/Far Above Cayuga's Waters//Misty Roses/Drifting/At The Crossroads/I Thought Of You Last
Night/When I Look In Your Eyes

Note: About February, 1968, Columbia LPs began to be issued in "compatible stereo" only.
The albums listed below released after that date were usually stereo only, while those released before that
date usually have mono counterparts.

CL-2734/CS-9534 - A Kind of Hush - John Davidson [10-67] (12-67, #74) Today/There's A
Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)/How Come You Do Me Like You Do/My Cup Runneth Over/Don't
Think Twice, It's All Right/If I Gave You//What Is A Woman?/The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin'
Groovy)/Georgy Girl/There'll Be Some Changes Made/If I Were A Carpenter

CL-2735/CS-9535 - Christmas with Marty Robbins - Marty Robbins [9-67] (12-67 #21-X)
O Little Town Of Bethlehem/Christmas Is For Kids/Christmas Time Is Here Again/Many Christmases
Ago/The Joy Of Christmas/Little Stranger (In A Manger)//Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/One Of You (In
Every Size)/Christmas Kisses/Merry Christmas To You For Me/A Christmas Prayer

CL-2738/CS-9538 - Fiddler on the Piano: The Laurie Holloway Trio Plays the Music from "Fiddler on
the Roof" - Laurie Holloway Trio [9-67] Fiddler On The Roof/To Life/Matchmaker,
Matchmaker/Miracle Of Miracles/Far From The Home I Love//If I Were A Rich Man/Bottle
Dance/Anatevka/Sunrise, Sunset/Now I Have Everything/Fiddler On The Roof (Reprise)

Note: CL-2739/CS-9539 through CL-2741/CS-9541 are included in a three-record Frank
Sinatra box set called The Essential Frank Sinatra (Columbia S3L-42/S3S-842).

CL-2739/CS-9539 (S3L-42/S3S-842) - The Essential Frank Sinatra, Record 1 - Frank
Sinatra [10-31-67] The stereo version is electronically rechanneled. From The Bottom Of My
Heart/Melancholy Mood/My Buddy/Here Comes The Night/Close To You/There's No You/The Charm Of
You/When Your Lover Has Gone//I Should Care/A Friend Of Yours/My Shawl/Nancy (With The Laughing
Face)/You Are Too Beautiful/Why Shouldn't I/One Love/Something Old, Something New

CL-2740/CS-9540 (S3L-42/S3S-842) - The Essential Frank Sinatra, Record 2 - Frank
Sinatra [10-31-67] The stereo version is electronically rechanneled. Blue Skies/Guess I'll Hang My
Tears Out To Dry/Why Shouldn't It Happen To Us/It's The Same Old Dream/You Can Take My Word For
It Baby/Sweet Lorraine/My Romance - Duet with Dinah Shore/One For My Baby (And One More For The
Road)//It All Came True/Poinciana/Body And Soul/I Went Down To Virginia/If I Only Had A
Match/Everybody Loves Somebody/Comme Ci, Comme Ca/If You Stub Your Toe On The Moon

CL-2741/CS-9541 (S3L-42/S3S-842) - The Essential Frank Sinatra, Record 3 - Frank
Sinatra [10-31-67] The stereo version is electronically rechanneled. The Right Girl For Me/The Huckle
Buck/If I Ever Love Again/Why Remind Me/Sunshine Cake - Duet with Paula Kelly/(We've Got A) Sure
Thing/It's Only A Paper Moon/My Blue Heaven//Nevertheless/You're The One/Love Me/I'm A Fool To
Want You/The Birth Of The Blues/Walkin' In The Sunshine/Azure-Te (Paris Blues)/Why Try To Change
Me Now

CL-2742/CS-9542 - Ed Sullivan Presents The Last Two People in the World - Jerry Stiller &
Anne Meara [10-67] Hershey Horowitz-Mary Elizabeth Doyle Wedding Plans/Ditto Mary Elizabeth
Doyle/Moments Of Truth Behind T.V. Commercials/Adult Adult Movies//Hate/Do You Love Me/German
Commercial/The Last Two People In The World

CL-2750 (C2L-43) - Bing Crosby in Hollywood (1930-1934), Record 2 - Bing Crosby
[10-67] Issued in mono only. I Guess It Had To Be That Way/Black Moonlight/Just An Echo In The
Valley/Beautiful Girl/After Sundown/We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines/Temptation/Our Big Love
Scene//Love Thy Neighbor/Once In A Blue Moon/Good-Night, Lovely Little Lady/May I?/(She Walks Like
You--She Talks Like You) She Reminds Me Of You/I'm Hummin'--I'm Whistlin'--I'm Singin'/Love In
Bloom/Straight From The Shoulder (Right From The Heart)

CL-2751 - Ethel Merman (1932-1935)/Lyda Roberti (1934)/Mae West (1933) - Various
Artists [11-67] Issued in mono only. Ethel Merman: Eadie Was A Lady/An Earful Of
Music/You're A Builder Upper/I Get A Kick Out Of You/You're The Top/The Lady In Red/It's The Animal In
Me//Lyda Roberti: College Rhythm/Take A Number From One To Ten; Mae West: A
Guy What Takes His Time/I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone/I'm No Angel/I Found A New Way To
Go To Town/I Want You--I Need You/They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk

CL-2752/CS-9552 - Only the Beginning - Joel Grey [10-67] You Mustn't Kick It
Around/Evelina/Who Are You Now?/You Oughta Be In Pictures/I Think It's Gonna Rain Today/I'll Build A
Stairway To Paradise//Willkommen/It Was My Father's Fashion/Ace In The Hole/In My Life

CL-2753/CS-9553 - The Lovin' People - Len Chandler [11-67] Bound To Fly/The Naked
Fool/The Lovin' People/The Warmth Of You Beside Me/And Still I Dream//Behind Your Eyes/Touch
Talk/Sold Out, No More Reservations/I Couldn't Keep From Carin' After All/The Language Of Love

CL-2761/CS-9561 - Today My Way - Patti Page [10-67] All The Time/In The Chapel In
The Moonlight/(Darlin') What's She Got That I Ain't Got/I Haven't Anything Better To Do/I Take It
Back/There Goes My Everything//Gentle On My Mind/Don't Sleep In The Subway/Same Old You/Can't
Take My Eyes Off You/Excuse Me

CL-2762/CS-9562 - Stonewall Jackson Country - Stonewall Jackson [11-67] This World
Holds Nothing (Since You're Gone)/If This House Could Talk/It's Such A Pretty World Today/I Threw Away
The Rose/Gonna Find Me A Bluebird/Big Busy World//You're The Sad In My Songs/There's No Reason
To Be Living (Since You're Gone)/I Can't Dry Your Tears/Only Lonely Me/I'll Go Get The Toolbox

CL-2764/CS-9564 - Eydie Gorme's Greatest Hits - Eydie Gorme [10-67] (12-67, #148) If
He Walked Into My Life/Amor/What Did I Have That I Don't Have?/I Wish You Love/Sabor A Mi//Blame It
On The Bossa Nova/Softly, As I Leave You/Mas Amor (More Love)/Matchmaker/Don't Go To Strangers

CL-2766/CS-9566 - Love, Andy - Andy Williams [10-67] (11-67, #8) Somethin'
Stupid/Watch What Happens/The Look Of Love/What Now My Love/Can't Take My Eyes Off You/Kisses
Sweeter Than Wine//Holly/When I Look In Your Eyes/The More I See You/There Will Never Be Another
You/God Only Knows

CL-2767/CS-9567 - Move Up to Heaven - Chuck Wagon Gang [11-67] I'm Living On The
Mountain/Will You Be There/A Wonderful Day/I'll Be Welcome Over There/I'm Gonna Move Up To
Heaven Someday/O Come Angel Band//When We Get To Glory Land/A Day Of Rejoicing/Rocky
Road/The Lights Of Home/I'm Gonna Live On

CL-2772/CS-9572 - Puttin' On - Lefty Frizzell [3-68] Little Old Wine Drinker/Get This
Stranger Out Of Me/You Gotta Be Puttin' Me On/Almost Persuaded/When The Rooster Leaves The
Yard/Anything You Can Spare//A Prayer On Your Lips/You Don't Have To Be Present To Win/I Just
Couldn't See The Forest (For The Trees)/Money Tree/Heart (Don't Love Her Anymore)

CL-2773/CS-9573 - For Once in My Life - Tony Bennett [11-67] (1-68, #164) They Can't
Take That Away From Me/Something In Your Smile/Days Of Love/Broadway Medley: Broadway; Crazy
Rhythm; Lullaby Of Broadway/For Once In My Life//Sometimes I'm Happy/Out Of This World/Baby, Dream
Your Dream/How Do You Say Auf Wiedersehen/Keep Smiling At Trouble (Trouble's A Bubble)

CL-2774/CS-9574 - You Don't Have to Say You Love Me - Jerry Vale [12-67] (3-68, #163)
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Io Che Non Vivo Senza Te)/Lover's Roulette/Eternally/Yellow
Days/Release Me//What A Wonderful World/There's A Kind Of Hush (All Over The World)/To Each His
Own/Ebb Tide/Till There Was You/You Have To Believe In Someone

CL-2781/CS-9581 - Billy Joe Royal Featuring Hush - Billy Joe Royal [11-67] Cry On My
Shoulder/Heart's Desire/I Never Promised You A Rose Garden/Yo-Yo/Save The Last Dance For Me/Deep
Inside Me//High On A Hilltop/These Are Not My People/The Greatest Love/Makin' Music/Hush

CL-2786/CS-9586 - A Scratch in the Sky - Cryan' Shames [12-67] (1-68, #56) A Carol For
Lorelei/The Sailing Ship/In The Cafe/Mr. Unreliable (LP version)/The Town I'd Like To Go Back To//Up On
The Roof (LP version)/It Could Be We're In Love (LP version)/Sunshine Psalm/I Was Lonely
When/Cobblestone Road-Dennis Dupree From Danville

CL-2787/CS-9587 - Mountain Dew - Lonzo & Oscar [3-68] The stereo version is
electronically rechanneled. I'm My Own Grandpa/Dormant Volcano/New River Train/The Sound Of
Nashville/Old Leather Saddle/I Worship The Ground You Walk On//There's A Hole At The Bottom Of The
Sea/Uh, What's Her Name/Going Up Town/A Funny Way Of Living/Grandpa's Mountain Dew

CL-2788/CS-9588 - Soul Ain't Nothin' but the Blues - Pat Lundy [1-68] Does She Ever
Remind You Of Me/What Now My Love/Yesterday/Don't Get Around Much Anymore And More Than You
Know/Through A Long And Sleepless Night//City Of Stone/Since I Fell For You/Soul Ain't Nothin' But The
Blues/God Bless The Child/The Thrill Is Gone/Another Rainy Day

CL-2789/CS-9589

CL-2790/CS-9590 - The Great Conspiracy - Peanut Butter Conspiracy [12-67] Turn On A
Friend (To The Good Life)/Lonely Leaf/Pleasure/Too Many Do/Living, Loving Life/Invasion Of The Poppy
People//Captain Sandwich/Living Dream/Ecstasy/Time Is After You/Wonderment

CL-2791/CS-9591

CL-2792 - Ethel Waters on Stage and Screen (1925-1940) - Ethel Waters [4-68] Issued in
mono only. Dinah/I'm Coming Virginia/Am I Blue?/Birmingham Bertha/You're Lucky To Me/Memories Of
You/You Can't Stop Me From Loving You/Stormy Weather//Heat Wave/Harlem On My Mind/Hottentot
Potentate/Thief In The Night/Taking A Chance On Love/Honey In The Honeycomb/Cabin In The Sky/Love
Turned The Light Out

CL-2793/CS-9593 - Lennon-McCartney R.F.D.: The Beatles Country Style - Jerry Inman
[1-68] From Me To You/A Hard Day's Night/Yesterday/I've Just Seen A Face/And I Love Her/I Don't Want
To Spoil The Party//Help/Here, There And Everywhere/I'll Cry Instead/Baby's In Black/We Can Work It Out

CL-2795/CS-9595 - It Must Be Him - Ray Conniff [1-68] (2-68, #25) Music To Watch Girls
By/Yesterday/Somethin' Stupid/It Must Be Him/A Man And A Woman//Release Me/There's A Kind Of
Hush (All Over The World)/What The World Needs Now Is Love/Don't Sleep In The Subway/Up, Up And
Away/The Impossible Dream

CS-9597 - A Long Time Comin' - Electric Flag [3-68] (4-68, #31) Issued commercially in
stereo only. Mono copies were available to radio stations with white labels with the stereo number. Killing
Floor/Groovin' Is Easy/Over-Lovin' You/She Should Have
Just/Wine//Texas/Sittin' In Circles/You Don't Realize/Another Country/Easy Rider

CS-9599 - Songs of Ireland - Ed Sullivan Orchestra & Chorus [2-68] Issued in stereo only.
Londonderry Air/It's A Great Day For The Irish/Galway Bay/The Wearin' Of The Green/I'll Take You Home
Again, Kathleen/Give Me Your Hand/Who Threw The Overalls In Mistress Murphy's Chowder?/Believe Me
If All Those Endearing Young Charms/The Kerry Dancer//Warm Winds Of Ireland/MacNamara's
Band/Medley: My Wild Irish Rose; When Irish Eyes Are Smiling/It's The Same Old Shillelaigh/How Are
Things In Glocca Morra?/The Countryside Dance/(Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral) That's An Irish Lullaby/Let Me
Shake The Hand That Shook The Hand Of Sullivan/Cockles And Mussels